Maurice Chevalier
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Lahir | Maurice Auguste Chevalier 12 September 1888 Paris, France |
Meninggal | 1 Januari 1972 Paris, France | (umur 83)
Pekerjaan | Cabaret singer, actor, dancer |
Tahun aktif | 1908–1970 |
Suami/istri | Yvonne Vallée (1927–1932) (divorced) Nita Raya (1937–1946) |
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Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 – 1 Januari 1972) adalah aktor film, penyanyi kabaret, dan penghibur berkebangsaan Prancis. Namanya dikenal melalui beberapa lagu yang dinanyikan antara lain "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", dan "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", juga melalui perannya dalam film di antaranya The Love Parade dan The Big Pond. Kekhasan yang sering dimunculkan adalah topi jerami yang dikenakannya, yang selalu dikenakan di panggung pertunjukan, dipadu dengan tuksedo.
Chevalier lahir di Paris. Namanya populer sejak membintangi dalam pertunjukan komedi musikal, tampil di hadapan publik sebagai penyanyi dan penari semasa muda, sebelum bekerja serabutan. Tahun 1909, dia menjadi pasangan dari bintang terkenal di Prancis saat itu, Fréhel. Meskipun hubungan mereka berlangsung singkat, mereka tetap mempertahankan keharmonisan dalam peran yang mereka mainkan sebagai peniru dan penyanyi dalam l'Alcazar di Marseille, di mana mereka mendapatkan pengakuan dari para kritikus Prancis. Tahun 1917, menggeluti jazz dan ragtime serta pergi ke London, di mana dia meraih kesuksesan baru di Palace Theatre.
Setelah itu, dia berkeliling ke Amerika Serikat, di mana dia bertemu komposer Amerika George Gershwin dan Irving Berlin dan mengajak bermain operet Dédé di Teater Broadway tahun 1922. Dia mengembangkan ketertarikannya di dunia seni peran dan sukses dalam Dédé. Ketika era film bersuara, dia pindah ke Hollywood tahun 1928, dan mendapatkan perannya kali pertama dalam film Amerika Serikat berjudul Innocents of Paris. Tahun 1930, dia dinominasikan dalam kategori Aktor Terbaik berkat perannya dalam film The Love Parade (1929) dan The Big Pond (1930), yang mengantarakan keberhasilannya dalam film Amerika hits, "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight".[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Lagu-lagu terkenalnya
[sunting | sunting sumber]- "Madelon de la Victoire" (1918)
- "Dans la vie faut pas s'en faire" (1921)
- "Valentine" (1924)
- "Louise" (1929)
- "My Ideal" (1930)
- "(Up On Top Of A Rainbow) Sweepin' The Clouds Away" (1930)
- "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (1930)
- "Living In the Sunlight, Loving In the Moonlight" (1930)
- "Isn't it Romantic" (1932)
- "Mimi" (1932)
- "Prosper (Yop La Boum)" (1935)
- "Quand un Vicomte" (1935)
- "Ma Pomme" (1936)
- "Le Chapeau de Zozo" (1936)
- "Mimile (un gars du Ménilmontant)" (1936)
- "Ça Fait d' Excellents Français" (1939)
- "Paris sera toujours Paris" (1939)
- "Ça sent si bon la France" (1941)
- "La Chanson du Maçon" (1941)
- "Notre Espoir" (1941)
- "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" (1957)
- "I Remember It Well" (1957)
- "Enjoy It!" (1967)
- "The Aristocats" (1970)
Filmografi terpilih
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Innocents of Paris (1929)
- The Love Parade (1929)
- Paramount on Parade (1930)
- The Big Pond (1930)
- Playboy of Paris (1930)
- The Little Cafe (1931)
- The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
- One Hour with You (1932)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- A Bedtime Story (1933)
- The Way to Love (1933)
- The Merry Widow (1934)
- Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
- The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
- The Man of the Hour (1937)
- With a Smile (1939)
- Man About Town (1939)
- Break the News (1941)
- Personal Column (1941)
- A Royal Affair (1950)
- Just Me (1950)
- 100 Years of Love (1954)
- My Seven Little Sins (1954)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Gigi (1958)
- Count Your Blessings (1959)
- Can-Can (1960)
- Black Tights (1961)
- Pepe (1962)
- Fanny (1961)
- Jessica (1962)
- In Search of the Castaways (1962)
- A New Kind of Love (1963)
- Panic Button (1964)
- I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)
- Monkeys, Go Home! (1968)
Lihat pula
[sunting | sunting sumber]Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ http://www.rfimusique.com/artiste/chanson/maurice-chevalier/biographie
- ^ The Romantic Life of Maurice Chevalier (1937), William Boyer, Chapter 9.
- ^ Sherman, Robert B. (1998). Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers.
- ^ History of Musical Film 1930s: Part I "Hip, Hooray and Ballyhoo" by John Kenrick
- ^ Pace, Eric (July 31, 1996). "Claudette Colbert, Unflappable Heroine of Screwball Comedies, is Dead at 92". The New York Times.
- ^ With Love, the Autobiography of Maurice Chevalier (Cassell, 1960), Chapter 22.
- ^ "Maurice Chevalier" Music and the Holocaust, accessed July 30, 2013. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/resistance-and-exile/french-resistance/maurice-chevalier/
- ^ La Louque Street View
- ^ Introduction by Robert Osborne, Turner Classic Movies, 11 August 2009
Bibliografi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Chevalier, Maurice (1949). The Man in the Straw Hat, My Story. New York: Crowell.
- Chevalier, Maurice; Eileen and Robert Pollock (1960). With Love. Boston: Little, Brown.
- Chevalier, Maurice (1970). Schoffie met wit haar. Utrecht/Antwerpen: A.W. Bruna & Zoon. ISBN 90-229-7116-3.
- Chevalier, Maurice (1970). I Remember It Well. New York: Macmillan.
- Gene Ringgold and DeWitt Bodeen (1973). Chevalier. The Films and Career of Maurice Chevalier. Secaucus, New Jersey: The Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0354-8.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Maurice Chevalier di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- (Inggris) Maurice Chevalier di TCM Movie Database
- Maurice Chevalier di Internet Broadway Database
- Photographs of Maurice Chevalier
- Kelahiran 1888
- Kematian 1972
- Meninggal usia 84
- Artikel Wikipedia dengan kesalahan penanda RISM identifiers
- 1888 births
- 1972 deaths
- Male actors from Paris
- Cabaret singers
- French male film actors
- French male singers
- French military personnel of World War I
- French male musical theatre actors
- Academy Honorary Award recipients
- Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe winners
- Tony Award winners
- Recipients of the Croix de guerre (France)
- French comedy musicians
- Imperial Records artists
- French people of Belgian descent
- French prisoners of war in World War I
- World War I prisoners of war held by Germany
- MGM Records artists
- 20th-century American male actors
- Musicians from Paris
- Paramount Pictures contract players
- Vaudeville performers
- French expatriate male actors in the United States
- 20th-century French male actors
- Pemeran laki-laki Amerika Serikat abad ke-20
- Pemeran film laki-laki Prancis